Myofascial Trigger Point Therapy

for Neck and Shoulder Pain

In this course, we will learn about common Myofascial Trigger Points and how to use self-treatment to reduce and eliminate pain in your clients. You will become familiar with the concepts of Myofascial Trigger Points, Precipitating and Perpetuating factors, and how they can help or hinder optimal physical function. In this course, we will learn about common Myofascial Trigger Points and how to use self-treatment to reduce and eliminate pain for your clients. You will become familiar with the concepts of Myofascial Trigger Points, Precipitating and Perpetuating factors, and how they can help or hinder optimal physical function.

We’ll be exploring the incredible work of Drs. Travell & Simons, whose books on Myofascial Pain & Dysfunction have been the Gold Standard in mapping out Myofascial Trigger Points and factors affecting their formation and elimination. This detailed specific work will help you target the source of pain to help keep your clients pain-free so that they may enjoy many years of quality of life and optimal function. In addition, self-treatment techniques will help your clients gain more from your work by helping them understand how they can reduce and eliminate their pain and dysfunction on a daily basis in between treatment sessions.

Each participant will receive a variety of self-treatment balls to keep. There will also be other self-treatment tools available to purchase.

After taking this course, the learner will be able to:

Understand the concept of Myofascial Trigger Points and how to treat them effectively
Palpate, Identify and self-treat Myofascial Trigger Points
Understand the concepts of Precipitating and Perpetuating factors
Be able to instruct a client how to apply these self-treatment techniques to themselves

Are you ready to learn more specific ways to treat the body to become a more efficient therapist? If so, I hope you’ll join me for this informative and fun class.

Date: 4/26/25
Time: 9am – 4pm
CE Hours: 6
Cost: $114

Instructor: Ann Boone

Ann Boone, LMT
Ann has been practicing massage therapy and bodywork since 1979. After many years of practice as a self-taught therapist, Ann continued her education in a more traditional setting at Lexington Healing Arts Academy, graduating in 2003. She is a board-certified (BCTMB) Massage Therapist through the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB)

Her advanced trainings include: Neuromuscular/Trigger Point therapies, Lymph Drainage (MLD-C), Visceral and Neural Manipulation, Craniosacral therapy, Pre/post-natal, sports massage, and Active Isolated Stretching. Ann has over 3,500 hours of experience in physical therapy settings (outpatient orthopedic, acute care, sports medicine) as well as having served as a team massage therapist to the University of Kentucky track team (co-ed) and the men’s basketball team for 11 years.

As a member of the AMTA, she has served as co-founder/co-chair of the AMTA-KY Sports massage team, a delegate to the National Convention for Kentucky, and has been Kentucky state Government Relations chair since 2018. She also is the current (2023-present) President of the National Association of Myofascial Trigger Point Therapists (NAMTPT). She has a private practice in Lexington, Kentucky, and currently teaches Kinesiology and Ethics at LHAA in the Massage Therapy Training Program.